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What do you use to make sure cookies don't manipulate your search results?

Am I correct in thinking that if you use a service like Hide My Arse the service that puts your search through remote computer to hide your personal IP address, it is accurate?

If you're working hard to get your website higher up Google's rankings you don't want your Google account or cookies on your machines when locked out of your G account, manipulating your search results to show you what you tend to look at.

False and better results than everybody else is seeing is no good.

You do need to see how you websites are truly performing out there amongst the potential customers.

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Good Evening Alan! I am Guilty! I'm addicted to sharing the content created for my company's site; Twitter, Facebook, Google+, you name it! Now so more than ever, with Search, plus Your World, I get that thrill to see some content ranking high on a SERP. What I do to keep my head out of the inbound clouds and down where the SERPs are actually returning results is by toggling the upper right button of Google's results page, this way you can see what your search results look like without personal content. Single click = unpersonalized view of search results.From Google's "Search, plus Your World" Blog Post on 1/10/2012:"That means no results from your friends, no private information and no personalization of results based on your Web History."But for me, a much more powerful tool to analyze and work with these results has been SEOmoz's Keyword Ranking Reports. Especially the Ranking History and Ranking Analysis Reports. They efficiently provide you the ranking results your looking, paired with comprehensive analysis, and it's based of SEOmoz crawl data, completely detaching your cookies from the results.

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